Should I ‘fess up? Saga of the sausage pie.

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Can you post the recipe?

It wasn’t really a recipe; sautéed onions, garlic and mushrooms, threw in some sage and thyme, browned the sausages, instant gravy on the thick side with a bit of wine , sheet of pastry top and bottom with overhanging edges uncut , glaze with half and half Tamari and water. Bake at 200 for ten mins then maybe another ten to fifteen at 180. Fast dinner for unexpected guests.
More careful about keeping spare specs with me now!

I never understand this need to confess when the event is long past, and nothing can be done to remedy it.

Your 'punishment' for your slip up, is ever remain silent.

Like others, I would say that you can no longer get those sausages, they were a special offer, or the maker has closed down.

I'm with everyone else - it won't achieve anything to confess and will probably make some people unhappy, so pointless. As M0nica says, your penance is to keep the secret for all time.

If in a year's time you decide to relate the story to friends make sure none of the family involved in the 'secret' is present ?

No, don’t fess up. Why would you?
Tell them you made the recipe up as you went along and can’t remember what you used. Give them something totally different then you don’t have to handle the ‘this tastes different to the last time’ conversation.

It was an accident, which caused no physical or mental harm, so water under the bridge.
You are suffering remorse, which is understandable.

As Whitehall says so often, "Lessons have been learned", so you won't make that mistake again, for any future meal.
IF you are asked about the original food, you'll just have to lie and say that can't get one of the ingredients any more (Shop closed?).
Anyway, you are trying a new recipe!

It was a genuine mistake and I’m with pop’s - just use vegan gluten free sausages this time and tell them you couldn’t get the same ones. Like others I’m pretty amazed you weren’t found out at the time !!

Bloody autocorrect, that should have read ‘I’m with previous posters’, not pop’s !!

Don’t tell them you will be lectured about their choice of diet. It was obviously a genuine mistake on your part. There is a good choice for meat free in the shops now. I quite like meat free sausages for a change Linda McCartney brand are nice.

They sprung it on you, you did the best you could and it was an honest mistake. I think keep quiet about it and keep glasses with you at all times.

Well they all seem to have enjoyed it so why ruin it for them?
It'll be our little secret!

Been there, done that, I kept quiet…?

I'm with all the rest. No point in stirring the pot, nothing to be gained.

Thanks everyone. I love ‘no point in stirring the pot’, very apt.
I will keep my mistake to myself, it is remorse and I shall live with it.
They can’t have been very nice sausages if no one even noticed they were meat!
I’m going to make the new pie at a leisurely pace this weekend and freeze it in readiness of their visit, which might not even happen the way things are going and put the saga to bed and not think on it any more. Gluten free vegans are a tough crowd.

'Stirring the pot', I didn't notice that. I'm more witty than I thought.

Definitely do not tell them.

If I had made a similar mistake, like you, I would make quite sure I didn't repeat it, but telling them will do no good at all.

It won't ease your conscience and will make tham uneasy.